Draft-plate for railway-cars.



H. l. WHIGLEY.

DRAFT PLATE FOR RAILWAY CARS.

APPucATloN mio MAY18,1914.

Lm., y A Patented 1360.211915.

A A 1Av HENRY I. WBIGIEY, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO UNIVERSALDRAFT GEAR ATTACHMENT C0., 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATIDN OFILLINOIS.

DRAFT-PLATE F013. RAILWAY-CARS.

riginal application filed August 16, 1913, Serial No. 785,055.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1914. Serial No. 839,375.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, I-InNRY I. l/VRIGLEY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Draft-Plates forRail way-Cars, of which the following is a specification, and which areillustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

rIhis application is a division of my application, Serial No. 785,055,filed August 16, 1913.

This application relates to draft arms for railway cars of the typeadapted to be attached to the car sills and be provided with draft andbufiing shoulders and. intermediate limiting stops for defining thedegree of compression of the draft gear; the invention appertainingparticularly to the form of construction of the limiting stops.

The invention is fully hereinafter described and is illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which` Figure 1 is a detail plan view,partially in section, of a po-rtion of a railway car with an improveddraft plate applied thereto; Fig. Q is an inside elevation of one of theplates; Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of a portion of the plateshowing one of the limiting stops, some portions being broken away, andFig. 4 is a detail in perspective of the same portion of the plate, froma different point of view.

The draft plate 10 is ordinarily made of cast metal and comprises a bodyportion adapted to fit against the inner face of a draft sill, as 11,and to be secured thereto by means of bolts. The body portion of theplate comprises a series of offset longitudi-` nally extending sections,as 12, 13, but this feature is not herein claimed, as it is made thesubject of the parent application of which this is a division. Theimproved limiting stop is not dependent upon this'speciiic form of thebody portion of the plate but is adapted for use in connection withdraft plates of other forms.

The draft plate here shown is adapted for use in connection withso-called tandem draft gears there being provided 2 sets of forms aguide bearing for the spring of the draft gear. The several walls of theflanges 18, 19 and the web 22 are preferably of uniform thickness andsubstantially thev same thickness of the body of the plate 10. The formof the stop and its disposition with reference to the-body of the plateare such that 1"'-sections are avoided, thereby the casting operation isfacilitated and an improved product obtained, as the substantialuniformity of thickness of metal in the various parts avoids the dangerfrom a variable shrinkage.

The web 22 may be apertured, as shown, to permit the insertion of anattaching bolt for securing the arm to the sill. i

I claim as my invention,-a

1. A draft plate having a follower limiting stop integral with the bodyof the plate and comprising a pair of vertically arranged instandingflanges, each flange forming a parallelogram, the sides of which are ofuniform height throughout, one of the horizontal sides of one of theflanges being laterally extended to form a Vguide bearing for a draftspring.

2. A draft plate having a follower limiting stop integral with the bodyof the plate and comprising a pair of vertically arranged instandingflanges, each flange forming a parallelogram, and a web uniting adjacentsides of the parallelograms to form a guide bearing for a draft spring.

HENRY I. VRIGLEY.

Iitnesses:

Louis K. GILLsoN, E. M. KLA'roI-IER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

